Red dead online didnt make infinite money from shark cards so it wasn't worth working on

It's crazy how GTA Online was so successful that it ruined Red Dead Online, a game that could have been just as good or even better.

The potential of RDO was crazy 😥😥

Good lord this seems like a horrible time from beginning to end. Live service really has ruined online games. I remember having so much fun playing Red Dead 1 online, just hopping on and playing what I wanted when I wanted. I don't want playing a game to become a full time job.

The fact that RDRD2 ONLINE support ended before we never got Ranches and Houses is so stupid and criminal.

Bro this video feels like it has 1 mil views, crazy effort for such a small channel. Keep it up bro you'll blow up with more content like this

I feel this. A friend & I get on every once & a while, we just do whatever but the conversation is always “what could have been” with this game.

OG Red Dead Multiplayer players here ? 🙋‍♂️

The song you used at the end fits so well with what has become of Red Dead Online

My favorite memory is when I was on the second the beta dropped, and me and at-least 8 other randoms were in a circle getting hyped in game chat simply because we had the lasso in online. Wish I could go back for just a day to experience that again.

This is one of the most savage yet nostalgic videos I’ve watched. The progression of RDO really worked like the progression of the Wild West - beta was wild with players killing each other in large posses for hours at a time and there was literally nothing else to do except be killers. Then ‘civilisation’ crept in with roles like trader and bounty hunter and extra online modes so people could make an easier life on RDO. This then advanced to everyone having money and guns and the game became so tame and boring that the ‘wild’ element slowly died. Poetic really. That ending killed me bro. Great video 👏

the somber montage of the best western game in History being forgotten by the rockstar gods hit hard.

That online map for the collector's map is amazing.

I honestly just wish if they don't add any HUGE update just add private servers because every time I try to hop online to see if online is still fun I get slaughtered by hackers :(

The line about Harriett spraying you with "some Bill Cosby shit" had me in stitches.

I remember when there was a war between gtao and rdo because people thought that rockstar would leave gta for rdo, man I wish that shit happened

6 years ago? damn dude time fucking flies

I saw early signs that the end was gonna happen at some point in time. The gold ( Self explanatory). The movement system change after the first roles update that changed the smooth and intense shootouts to first person, drug induced strafin with broken hitboxes. The constant tonic spam combined with the unnecessary ability cards system bred a "Meta over Fun" mentality among a high number of players including the ones that didn't even want to play that way. Don't even get me started on the disappearance of ALL the animals for a whole 8 months after the moonshine update dropped. Had to load into legendary bounty missions just to hunt for the trader role. Out of spite I want Gta 6 to flop for what they did to our child, but at the same time I do want it to be good lol. Rant aside, great video man. The effort put into it feels like this should be a bigger channel so here's another to help with that.🤙

Actually got sad by the video ending. Damn R*, we trusted you. Single player is still a masterpiece.

I remember that sometimes I would put all my guns away, disable the HUD and just walk with my horse around the map, with the game's loading screen music playing in the background. Sometimes I had other players join me, and that's something I feel can't be experienced any other way.

Red dead online is the reason i even met my current friend group with out this game i would have never met my best bud and our first interaction was him inviting me to a party and me saying "the fuck do you want" and him asking to do some missions

The currency in RDR2 and Online seems so off to me. It was way too easy to make money in single player, and way too slow/tedious in online. Also great video, you can tell you put a lot of work into it, hopefully the algorithm will pick it up.

The end hit different

I’ve been playing since the beta. The game died the moment they stared hiding players from one another. It made the world feel empty

I remember the first day of Red Dead Online I spawned in the desert with a bunch of random players and we had a big fist fight full of people being lassoed and dragged around! It was such a fun time, now everytime i hop on Red Dead online its either a ghost town or big posses having wars in the middle of towns shooting anyone they see on sight. It's sad to see Rockstar abandoned a game with so much potential..

I meet one of my closest friends in RDO who also became the first player I ever played with. Before RDO I was a hardcore solo player because of my crippling social anxiety which caused me to be terrified of online games and pvp. I was riding around when a random player caught me with a lasso (typical) and when the player let me go I saw that he had a super high lvl. I wasn't gonna shoot knowing full well that he would obliterate me so I just stood looking at him. That caused him to tie me up, but me on his horse and bring me to his camp. Four years later we play almost every single day! So RDO downfall hurt quite a lot but I will always be thankful for the fact that it gave me my first ever online friend.

How do you only have 38 subscribers mate this work is a whole other level, keep it up bro

Cruel cruel world at the end was a nice touch, now I’m crying

*Red Dead Online should’ve been outsourced to a secondary studio*

"There was a story that was, at the the time, unfinished." The sad part is that it's still unfinished.

This video is great you definitely earned a new subscriber. I really enjoy evolution/downfall videos that go over history of different games you did awesome on this!

Dang dude this video is amazing the editing and everything you’ll blow up one day and I’ll be here for it

Honestly bro this was a high quality video, you must really get screwed over by the algorithm if you make content this good man. Keep up the great work.

Even tho you might call your past self "cringe" (an experince i think we can all relate to), it's awesome to hear the genuine joy and fun you and your pals were having :). Takes me back. Great video, with good audio balancing.

I remember when save red dead online was at its highest. It inspired me to buy the game and try it out myself. The player base definitely felt bigger than it does now

Great job on the video, this my favorite game ever made. I only play story though because the amount of detail and secrets is amazing, and endless..I always felt like online was dead, never cared much for it… it’s like a western backrooms😂

Loved the video, really felt like something a huge channel would make. Legitimately made me remember why I stopped playing

This video is amazing, it absolutely deserves more views and I’m sure you’ll get them. The effort really shows, especially with everything you talked about. I’ve been playing since the beta and I knew of each thing you’d talk about next. I’m happy to see someone talking about the game that actually cares about it and isn’t just some GTA youtuber covering the game with little interest. You earned my sub

Great video I was surprised when I saw how many subscribers you have as this is really good quality. ps I think you should of included the call to arms update as for me I thought that it was the last update to bring the community together.

I remember playing the online in what was, for me, the best time to play. The daily challenges weren't nerfed yet, and I was able to buy all three roles. I had a lot of fun, and getting money from hunting was immensely satisfying. I would watch any new video that came out, and stopped playing about at the same time the dailys were nerfed. Great video bro, keep it up!

I remember jumping straight into the multiplayer after finishing the story in the same week of release and falling instantly into despair. It was nothing like the first RDR multiplayer and had a poor currency system. I dropped it after a few missions. Months later I tried it again and not only was it worse, I couldn't play any missions that required more people, because no one was one now. At least not when I could play. It could've been beautiful.

I think what probably hurt a lot was the "Save Red Dead Online" that happened on Twitter and Rockstar just ignored it, and the constant Halloween outlaw pass coming back... God, I remember everyone speculating if they were gonna add zombies in the online on its first month of Halloween, good times, this bring backs memories, now all I do is hop on once in a blue moon, and literally walk to towns and sit down on benches and chat with anyone nearby

really enjoyed this video. only yesterday i checked out my old game clips and captures from the beta, all of which were me messing around with mates, and i genuinely shed a tear. awesome times!

dude the editing in this video is so good, i hope this gets more attention man keep up the good work

rdo's prime was 2019 when they gave us the update with the roles and the outlaw pass, man i was so happy that day 😢

This will go down as one of the biggest wasted opportunities in gaming. After seeing how everything turned out, now I wish that guy that hacked rockstar would have released the red dead source code to the modders. If RS isn't willing to support this game the community would have.

Such a small youtuber yet the content is very high quality, keep it up. Also about RDO, I hate seeing it just being abandoned in favour of GTA.

Red dead online is so much better then gta online. I started a new character a month ago and I’m having a blast playing with my wife. I haven’t had this much fun in any gta game

Such a shame, this game had so much potential...

I got RDR2 in the Christmas of 2019, played the Beta with my friends. All we ever wanted to do was rob banks, trains and maintain a ranch like Beecher's Hope but we never got that. Here's hoping one day someone else will take the mantle of Western Games and give us everything there is to offer for our cowboy dreams.

I ran a clan in red dead online a huge one actually with my friend hydro, it had over 1000 members so as you can imagine I was on this game 24/7 for atleast a year 2018 onwards and those were some of the best times I’ve ever had on a game. I will never forgot the potential rdo had and how truly sad it is that rockstar abandoned it. Little tip btw you can exploit the money in races for example if you and your friends wait out a lobby for 20 mins you’ll get 5-10x the xp, gold and money it’s quite nice and how I imagined to get thousands of gold

That ending montage to the tune of Cruel World. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻. Brilliant. Keep up this quality of content, you're gonna get some good attention. Well done.

Everyone that plays this game knows how much potential this had. It’s sad that there is no other company to threaten rockstar’s beloved GTA, so they could open their eyes. Rdr could’ve made as much money as GTA. With updates simple as Properties, working like moonshine, costing 10000 gold bars or smth, they get players to grind and use their real money. Giving us more passes, more horses and stable space, decent train robberies, bank robberies, new roles like rancher, horse trading, debt collector, finishing Online story, the game would take off completely. And for everyone saying GTA had attention: no it didn’t. Yes a, rockstar updates the game, but you know what they do? They take cars from the game or give you useless cars, and they update their shark cards to get more money. Not to mention every other week we have a new horrible song from an artist no one gives a f*** about to play on the radio. Rockstar, since 2019, seems to have lost everything they had good. And it saddens me that GTA kids are willing to pay 200$ or more for GTA6 because that just gives more power to this god awful company. Yes, their story games are good. But the company as a whole is disgusting and their contractors and investors are even worse. Boycott rockstar.

It’s sad how that game actually went bad and down. There was also still online story missions to complete. Sadly we didn’t get the ones with Grace lancing I really wanted to know what happened after Jessica and Horley

Really good summary. Sometimes hilarious. I was there the second Beta dropped, too. Wonder if we ever ran into each other. I was super devoted and stopped playing in early 2020, as the nonsense grew. I missed the big "clown protest" - I had already given up for all the reasons you discussed.

This video was so well put together it could have been from one of the biggest creators on the platform, only it had more heart. Don’t give up continue with this channel and it will be great

Bro you gotta keep posting content this is entertaining dude !

It's a shame that rockstar abandoned red dead online I remember when the frontier update came out I was hyped up because I had high hopes that we'd get more roles and new stuff but seeing rockstar give it bread Crumb updates has to be one of the saddest tragedy in gaming history

A single tear rolls down my cheek at the thoughts of the wasted potential every time a red dead online vid pop up in my recommendations.

Beautiful montage at the end. Really captures the spirit of roaming the world of RDR. I just wish it had gotten the same love as GTAO. But because no one bought gold like shark cards it was discarded.

the game was great until horsepressor mark .5 came in

In defense of the elephant rifle, it's an awesome cavalry weapon if you can manage the awful fire rate. Riding a horse negates the knockback for some reason, and you don't have to focus on aiming for crits to get a one shot kill. Literally just point at a player, or their horse, and boom. Dead.

great breakdown as someone that’s been playing sine beta this brought back numerous memories!

This is a very well put together video dude- keep it up!

I think rockstar might come back for rdrO after gta 6.

When Rockstar abandoned RDRO, I celebrated. GTA W🎉

Nice outro! But yeah I was literally thinking about this the other day, it’s been something like years since the last update. Surely they could just add properties, and then those could unlock heist style missions like in GTA Online? That shouldn’t be difficult to do…

I just became your 796th subscriber. I know you’ll be big someday if you keep this up. Great video!

my favorite game

Great EDIT Ranga ! This was awesome ! hope it gets more views!

Back when they first broughr out those first 3 roles I'd normally have a long youtube video in the background and just chill a few hours doing the whole map. Did it on a Sunday every week for a month and then had enough money for anything I ever felt that I needed. Was able to buy anything released in the future content updates and after that i just hit max role ranks and then just chilled in the open world. Such a shame man the world is so rich and full of life and the only reason I kept coming back past the initial online release after all my crew of friends stopped playing after a few weeks was because I kept myself immersed but as mentioned in this video, rockstar really wanted people to stop playing it the way they were hardly releasing content and the moment they brought something decent out for the players still interested like daily challenges they decided to back peddle, remove one of the only few good things to grind for and then straight up pull the plug and announce that 'that's it folks'. As someone who rode the wave from 2018 and kept coming back until about late 2021 I enjoyed my time and compared to gta lobbies, ypu actually meet alot better people in that open world. One thing that I really love that wasn't mentioned was the proximity system, you didn't have players from the other side of the map hunting you down as they didn't know where you were if you were just chilling in the middle of nowhere minding your own busisness. To those still out there playing, I commend you as you guys are the ones who made the game great for those small interactions in the world. I really hope that if red dead 3 launches (long time from now) they do the online justice and actually make the right efforts and use rdo as an example for themselves of what went wrong and how they can make it better

this video is really well produced you should be proud of this, great job!!!

My friend group and I are actually having a lot of fun with the online mode, we often just chill around camp, do some trading missions, do some bounty hunting and occasionally dabbling in a bit of roleplaying here and there. It sure could have had a lot more content or polishing, but I’m having a blast playing it!

I bought rdr2 this month after years of wanting to play, and I just started rdr online today, also love the videos, keep it up 👍

Thank you man. You captured my feelings with this one perfectly. This was the final straw for me. I do not care how many years they've worked on GTA VI, I simply can no longer trust this company to deliver anything they promised. It was betrayal after betrayal and I have had enough. I do not believe a single image from that trailer will even be remotely like that in game. The cancellation of the RDR1 remake on top and the bastardisation if the GTA trilogy remakes were just more proof for me that the old R* was dead. What could have been...

Pre daily missions I figured out that Gun Rush rewarded you based on your place on the leaderboard when you quit in addition to the "More gold for just waiting around timer" So if I got eliminated early I could just set the controller down upside down so there was input on the sticks and go do house chores or something else until the match ended. If everyone else who got eliminated in the meantime left the lobby to start a new match by the time the final 1v1 was over I'd get the payout for finishing third place instead of 31st or whenever I was actually eliminated. Also, there was always a typo in one text that displayed during gun rush that only appeared on one single map. I sent that in as a bug report a few times I would totally be unsurprised if it was still there today.

I wish I came across this guy a lot sooner then what I did definitely feel he makes better KZfaq videos then a lot of people on here creating videos to do with rdo find him funny as and at the same time every point he makes is 100 percent true keep doing what u be doing ranga😂

I started around the frontier pursuits update, picked collector as my first role. I was rolling in money in no time, by level 70 I had more than I could ever spend, and just never worried about cash again. Just messing around with friends doing whatever until I quit

Bro there's no way u only have 388 subs, this is huge channel quality. I wish you all the best.

Very well done video essay! Keep it up, keep improving and I’m sure the subs & views will come rolling in 🤗

Currently replaying RDR2 on PC, 5 years after playing it on launch on PS4. Got 16 days time played on RDO before I quit when they released the expanded Bounty Hunter role for more gold, at the same time as nerfing the daily challenge payouts and streaks! I fondly remember spending an entire afternoon collecting every item using Jean Ropke's map; for several days in a row, to rake in thousands of dollars. I actually enjoyed the Outlaw Pass given that it paid for itself and only required 2,000xp to increase a tier, which could easily be done by doing the Legendary Bounties or Daily Challenges. Such a shame how they abandoned it. I loved the little niche things you could do, such as selling legendary animal pelts to Cripps to vastly add more materials to the Trader role; or only doing one daily to keep the streak doing (like visiting a shop in a town which you could do by riding close to the butcher); or sedating & reviving a single rabbit which would make Harriet okay with you despite the many animals you killed beforehand. Very good recap video!

The end Made me shed a tear 😢… I have some of best memories playing this game with my friends for the 1st time.

Really good video man. "Keep it up, Your gonna start seeing things change for you around here" -Arthur Morgan

Great video brother, chur from CHCH. Hope you go far as a nz youtuber.

I feel like your channel is gonna make it big this is quality content

I think what makes me angrier at this RDO situation is the 0 communication we have from Rockstar. 0. We all know the game is dead. We all know it’s just waiting for servers to shut down. So why doesn’t rockstar just post a paragraph explaining why tf did they do this.

dude this is a really good video!!ur super underrated

It is so sad that RDO fell the way it did. I remember reading about them "pausing" the updates, to focus on GTA. Yet here we are a good while later, and they have yet to resume updating the game. Anytime me and my friend get on, we are met with hackers in every server, making it unplayable. Furthermore, nothing to do when we finally catch a break from the chaos. Though it is worth mentioning that roleplay servers are playing a part in reviving the "online" part of the community, even if those roleplays are never done in the online mode.

Great video. Good editing. And i would like to mention something, me and my friends live in Brazil, the servers of Rockstar are complete disastrous here: actions not registering, missions not paying, disconections all the time, not being able to join a friend and the list goes on. I remember we had to open TCP and UDP ports for the servers keep us connected. One of my friends live on another state, i had to make a live phone call teaching him how and which ports to open so we could play together. And still... the experience wasn't perfect, sometimes, in the end of missions we wouldn't be paid, the moonshine would sell and we wouldn't get the money. It was awful, but still, like you said, we wanted to play so bad, we made our own fun. Imagine my face when Rockstar say it would abandon the game. Complete bullshit of a company. My friends say that i'm exaggerating and i'm a hater but i think GTA 6, will not e as good as past games. The company is not the same as it was 10 years ago.

I still love playing it. My favorite is doing the Call to Arms. During the first days I made a lot of money fishing for muskies. They were worth $7.75 and I was able to get the equipment I need ASAP

Bro, that outro was so great

Beatiful video man! Love the last few minutes

Nah this is top quality work from a small channel you deserve the sub

Holy shit i didnt see the views until i went into the comments and this is outrageus. Great video

Damn bro you actually managed to get me to watch a video to the end like the whole thing bravo

loved this video! I logged 600+ hours i think on RDO and when bloody money came out i knew it had run it's course. Playing with friends is still some of the best memories I have in my life. But, that cover of Cruel World at the end of the video.... not a fan XD Nah but fr great video

I appreciate read dead online for what it is but it is so sad to think what it could have truly been. My hopes were high back in those days too. They gave us the most amazing story in any video game ever and they could have provided one of the best online experiences too

Good video dude respectable editing as well for a channel with 600 subs youll blast up the rank in no time

Fantastic video. Also, I loved the music. What was the song playing at 3:10?

Im level 450 almost I played since Beta for the online me and my friends absolutely loved this experience for what it was and they completely tore it down and ruined it for what it was for greed and only greed. The PVP was really fun and there was always something to do with your friends at camp. They needed to add houses and so much more to make it a complete experience, it’s part of why I started boycotting GTA online. I made so many friends and memories, but the gang split up all went their separate ways minus one or two of us now but I still think fondly of these days.